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Each of these fire maps accumulates the locations of the fires detected by
MODIS on board the Terra and Aqua satellites over a 10-day period. Each
colored dot indicates a location where MODIS detected at least one fire
during the compositing period. Color ranges from red where the fire count
is low to yellow where number of fires is large. The compositing periods
are referenced by their start and end dates (julian day). The duration of
each compositing period was set to 10 days. Compositing periods are reset
every year to make year-to-year comparisons straightforward. The first
compositing period of each year starts on January 1. The last compositing
period of each year includes a few days from the next year.

The
About Rapid Response Imagery
page provides more information on usage guidelines, product quality, and
algorithms for the fire location data.

Fire location data:

MODIS fire location data are distributed in a variety of forms
(e.g. interactive web mapper, GIS, Google Earth, text files) through the
Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS)
at the University of Maryland. The official monthly MODIS active fire
location text files are distributed from the University of Maryland via the
FTP server fuoco.geog.umd.edu
(login name is fire and password is burnt) in the directory
modis/C5/mcd14ml. These data lag a few months behind the LANCE fire
locations available from FIRMS. The fire detection code is identical to
that used to process the official science quality data. However, there
will be slight differences in the locations of the fires detected due to
the geolocation differences caused by using predicted ephemeris.

CBC News is running this story. And, if you are a WASP...this type of goings on, even 60 years back, exemplifies why Aboriginal people distrust and many still, hate, white folk.

In case you don`t plan on reading the article..I have cut and pasted the last two paras.

``Not much was learned from those hungry little bodies. A few papers
were published — "they were not very helpful," Mosby said — and he
couldn't find evidence that the Norway House research program was
completed.
"They knew from the beginning that the real problem and the cause of
malnutrition was underfunding. That was established before the studies
even started and when the studies were completed that was still the
problem." ``

he Canadian government says it's appalled to hear hungry aboriginal
children and adults may have been used as unwitting subjects in
nutritional experiments by federal bureaucrats.
Recently published research by food historian Ian Mosby has revealed
details about one of the least-known but perhaps most disturbing aspects
of government policy toward aboriginal people immediately after the
Second World War.
"It was experiments being conducted on malnourished aboriginal
people," Mosby, a post-doctoral fellow in history at the University of
Guelph, told CBC's As It Happens program on Tuesday.

"It
started with research trips in northern Manitoba where they found, you
know, widespread hunger, if not starvation, among certain members of the
community. And one of their immediate responses was to design a
controlled experiment on the effectiveness of vitamin supplementation on
this population."
Mosby also found that plans were developed for research on aboriginal
children in residential schools in British Columbia, Ontario, Nova
Scotia and Alberta.
"If this is story is true, this is abhorrent and completely
unacceptable," a spokesperson for Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard
Valcourt stated in an email late Tuesday.
"When Prime Minister [Stephen] Harper made a historic apology to
former students of Indian Residential Schools in 2008 on behalf of all
Canadians, he recognized that this period had caused great harm and had
no place in Canada."
The spokesperson added that the federal government "remains committed
to a fair and lasting resolution to the legacy of the Indian
Residential Schools."

Visited northern Manitoba reserves

Mosby
— whose work at the University of Guelph focuses on the history of food
in Canada — was researching the development of health policy when he
ran across something strange.

"I started to find vague references to studies conducted on 'Indians'
that piqued my interest and seemed potentially problematic, to say the
least," he told The Canadian Press. "I went on a search to find out what
was going on."
Government documents eventually revealed a long-standing,
government-run experiment that came to span the entire country and
involved at least 1,300 aboriginals, most of them children.

It began with a 1942 visit by government researchers to a number of
remote reserve communities in northern Manitoba, including places such
as The Pas and Norway House. They found people who were hungry, beggared by a combination of the
collapsing fur trade and declining government support. They also found a
demoralized population marked by, in the words of the researchers,
"shiftlessness, indolence, improvidence and inertia."

The researchers suggested those problems — "so long regarded as
inherent or hereditary traits in the Indian race" — were in fact the
results of malnutrition.
Instead of recommending an increase in support, the researchers
decided that isolated, dependent, hungry people would be ideal subjects
for tests on the effects of different diets.
"This is a period of scientific uncertainty around nutrition," said
Mosby. "Vitamins and minerals had really only been discovered during the
interwar period.
"In the 1940s, there were a lot of questions about what are human
requirements for vitamins. Malnourished aboriginal people became viewed
as possible means of testing these theories."

Some selected to receive vitamins

The
first experiment began in 1942 on 300 Norway House Cree. Of that group,
125 were selected to receive vitamin supplements which were withheld
from the rest. At the time, researchers calculated the local people were living on
less than 1,500 calories a day. Normal, healthy adults generally require
at least 2,000.
"The research team was well aware that these vitamin supplements only
addressed a small part of the problem," Mosby writes. "The experiment
seems to have been driven, at least in part, by the nutrition experts'
desire to test their theories on a ready-made 'laboratory' populated
with already malnourished human experimental subjects." The research spread. In 1947, plans were developed for research on
about 1,000 hungry aboriginal children in six residential schools in
Port Alberni, B.C., Kenora, Ont., Schubenacadie, N.S., and Lethbridge,
Alta.
One school deliberately held milk rations for two years to less than
half the recommended amount to get a 'baseline' reading for when the
allowance was increased. At another, children were divided into one
group that received vitamin, iron and iodine supplements and one that
didn't.
One school depressed levels of vitamin B1 to create another baseline
before levels were boosted. A special enriched flour that couldn't
legally be sold elsewhere in Canada under food adulteration laws was
used on children at another school.
And, so that all the results could be properly measured, one school was allowed none of those supplements.
Many dental services were withdrawn from participating schools during
that time. Gum health was an important measuring tool for scientists
and they didn't want treatments on children's teeth distorting results.

Ethically dubious, says researcher

The experiments, repugnant today, would probably have been considered ethically dubious even at the time, said Mosby.
"I think they really did think they were helping people. Whether they
thought they were helping the people that were actually involved in the
studies, that's a different question." He noted that rules for research on humans were just being formulated and adopted by the scientific community. Little has been written about the nutritional experiments. A May 2000
article in the Anglican Journal about some of them was the only
reference Mosby could find. "I assumed that somebody would have written about an experiment
conducted on aboriginal people during this period, and kept being
surprised when I found more details and the scale of it. I was really,
really surprised. "It's an emotionally difficult topic to study."

Not much was learned from those hungry little bodies. A few papers
were published — "they were not very helpful," Mosby said — and he
couldn't find evidence that the Norway House research program was
completed.
"They knew from the beginning that the real problem and the cause of
malnutrition was underfunding. That was established before the studies
even started and when the studies were completed that was still the
problem."

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